Centered Notes

I have a note on a drawing that I'm trying to place in the center of a circle. I've changed the note's format to "Center Align" and "Middle Align" but the note's center is still not exactly center. The vertical alignment options are top center, middle center, and bottom center. I've made sure to grab the middle center handle when moving the note around.

The notes are technically centered (ducking from all the vegatables about to be thrown at me). If you include lowercase letters that dip below the line, the text is centered vertically. The position of the text can be adjusted for the difference by using the Parameters group box in the annotation's PropertyManager.

I don't know of any way to establish a relationship between a note and an element in a sketch or drawing view. You spoke about grabbing the middle handle so I'm assuming you're trying to position it while the note is active, but I've had better luck with closing out a note, then clicking on it anywhere to drag it. Then you can zoom way in and drag it so it looks right in relation to your circle.

When I grab the center (or any other) handle of a note (make sure you have a drag handle, it turns orange) and drag it around a drawing view I see the different relationship symbols pop up by the curser as I cross various elements, edges, verticies, midpoints, endpoints etc, including circle centers. The drag handle will snap to the element when the symbol is showing. I can't form an actual sketch type relationship, but if I lock the note (anchor button in the note property manager) AND the note belongs to the view it's on, it will stay where I placed it when the view is moved.

In the example you can just see the drag handles showing that the bounding box is centered in the sketched circle. I added the center mark and reduced the circle size to fit the bounding box after I placed the note. As Richard noted above the text is slightly above center, I assume this is a bug. When you are positioning a note (also sketch points in sketches) you may notice that you have to hit the edge of the circle first, then the center will highlight and you can snap to it.

I gave this some thought on the way home yesterday. I didn't know about the "Snap to Rectangle Center", but have you tried making a block of your note, then editing it and moving the insertion point to the center of the note? You would still probably need to eyeball placing the insertion point but at least when it was done your note would snap to points. Especially since you said you have a lot of them.

This idea might work for you as a work around to get the justification you are looking for. I make use of the alignment and snapping capabilities in both AutoCad and DraftSight when I need to create particular alignment in blocks. Much easier to manipulate in those programs when it comes to locating text entities with drawn/sketched entities. I threw together a quick DWG file with an editable attribute and also included the SLDBLK file that was generated from it. Hope it gives you something that you can use or modify to suit your needs.

Enjoy

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The notes are technically centered (ducking from all the vegatables about to be thrown at me). If you include lowercase letters that dip below the line, the text is centered vertically. The position of the text can be adjusted for the difference by using the Parameters group box in the annotation's PropertyManager.

But why can't the text just be centered within the text box? If you make the text box larger it's easier to see that the text is always at the top. It shifts left, right, and center based on the left, right, center alignment but using top, middle, and bottom alignment doesn't effect it.